TWO ANGELS WITH THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE PASSION - Project of a title page, c. 1585/88

Pen and bistre and washes, retouched with white gouache; stuck down onto a new mount; 200 x 154 mm.
Prov.: From an unidentified collection marked with an illegible impress in an octagonal frame, later in the Lubomirski collection.
Old inv. no. 8755.

Design for a copperplate signed by J. and R. Sadeler being a title page of Virtvtes Iesv Christi... (Virtues of Christ) and executed in 1585-88 (repr.: Hollstein XLIV, no. 1152, XLV, pl. 1152). In the print a somewhat different shape of the frame of the board with the inscription. Composition in reverse.